X11/X.Org Security In Bad Shape 179
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Soulskill
from the i-blame-the-schools dept.
from the i-blame-the-schools dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress explains how X11 Server security with being 'worse than it looks.' The presenter found more than 120 bugs in a few months of security research and is not close to being done in his work. Upstream X.Org developers have begun to call most of his claims valid. The presentation by Ilja van Sprunde is available for streaming."
When will Wayland contain this essential feature? (Score:4, Funny)
Cue hord of posts demanding that Wayland must die as it can never replicate the mass security violations that X11 contains.